Surface-decorating



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sumct DECORATING.

APPLICATION HLED AUG.17, I920.

. 1,388,426. Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

M INVENTOR.

Edmund I Grail e my ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND J. GBEIVE, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SURFACE-DECORATING.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDMUND J. GREIVE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Surface-Decorating, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to surface decoration and a process of making the same, and while it is of general application it is especially intended and designed for the surface decoration of caskets.

It is an object of this invention to devise a method of decorating the outer surface of a casket forming a highly ornamental surface p which is easily, quickly .and inexpensivel applied, and which, when hardened, wi l not crack, chip or peel from the surface to which it is applied.

In the drawing is shown a perspective view of a casket having an ornamental coating of the improved plastic composition.

The casket is shown at 1 as of any usual or preferred construction, preferably, of wood and the coating is shown at 2.

This coating has for its base a quick drying plaster such as plaster of Paris. An adhesive material, which when dry is some- I -what elastic, is mixed with the plaster in order that the composition formed will stick to the surface upon which it is applied. The

adhesive used is, preferably gelatin glue. 3

In order to prevent shrinking and consequent cracking or peeling of the composition when it has set, a resinous material of thick pitch-like substance is, preferably, added to the composition. For this purpose Venice turpentine is, preferably, employed.

As a practical example of the composition the following formula may be used:

Water 1 gallon.

' Plaster of Paris 6 pounds.

Gelatin glue und.

Venice turpentine 2; pound.

In making the improved plaster composition the flakes of gelatin glue are first soaked in the water until the water has been absorbed by the flakes to form a jelly-like substance. This substance is then heated until in liquid form and the plaster of Paris is then added to theliquid, the mixture being constantly stirred and maintained in a heated condition. The consistency of the mixture may be regulated by adding water if necessary, it being desired to form a composition of a consistency adapted to be read- Specification 01 Letters latent.

Patented Aug. 23, 1921.

Application filed August 17, 1920. Serial No. 404,229.

ily applied with a brush as a liquid coating. The turpentine is then added and the composition thoroughly mixed.

The mixture is maintained in a heated condition while applying the same and is coated upon the surface to be ornamented with a brush. ,During application of the coating it may be brushed into an uneven surface having the ornamental ridges 3 formed thereon. The coating is then allowed to dry and harden, when it may be sand papered to smooth the surface thereof.

A suitable sizing is then applied to the surface of the coating in order to make it ossible for a lacquer coating to stick to the surface of the compositioni The lacquer coating applied to the composition is, preferably, sprayed thereon over the entire surface of the composition. This coatin may consist of any usual lacquer and meta powder, such as bronze or gold powder. A color coating is then applied to the entire surface of the composition, preferably, by spraying. For this purpose japan colors are used, since they will not mix with the metal powder coating. If found desirable gasolene or the like may be mixed with the japan colors in order to prevent the same from drying too fast and also to allow portions of said colors to be subsequently rubbed from the surface of the composition. The portions of the 'apan colors coating the ridges 3 are, preferably, rubbed 05 with a cloth saturated in turpentine or gasolene in order that the metal coatingupon said ridges may shine through the colored coating. If desired a finish coating of lacquer may then be applied to the entire surface of the ornamental coating in order to brighten the same.

It will be observed that the invention, as thus described, provides for coating wood or the like with a composition which will not ing a lacquer coating containing a metallicpigment, applying a color coatlng, and removing the color coatingfrom portions of the surface to allow the metal coating to shine through.

2, The method of decorating surfaces which consists in applying an elastic coating thereon, forming ridges 1n said coating, al-

lowing the coating to dry, sizing the coating, applylng a lacquer coating containing a metallic plgment, applying a color coating,

ing ridges in said coating, allowing said coating todry, sand papering the coating,

applying asizing thereto, applying a lacquer coating containing a metallic pi ent, applying a color japan coating, an removing the colored japan coating from the ridges to allow the metal coating to shine through.

4. A casket having the outer surface composed of an elastic coating with ridges thereon, a metallic pigment coating covering said elastic coating, and a colored japan coating covering the metallic pigment coating exce t on said ridges.

n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

EDMUND J. GREIVE. 

